noun:

• drive; trip by car; driving

~する noun / intransitive verb:

• to (go for a) drive; to go on a trip by car

~する noun / transitive:

• to drive (e.g. a car)
• to drive (innovation, change, etc.); to propel

noun:

• drive - IT term

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to break; to snap; to be cut; to split; to crack
• to be injured
• to wear out; to be worn out
• to break; to burst; to collapse
• to wear off; to stop working; to go dead
• to expire (time limit, etc.); to run out; to become due
• to run out (of stock, etc.); to be exhausted; to be used up; to be sold out; to be out of
• to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship); to break up; to have severed ties; to be cut off; to be disconnected
• to cut well; to be sharp
• to be sharp-minded; to be keen; to be shrewd; to be quick-witted; to be able
• to be short of; to drop under (a certain figure); to beat (e.g. a record time)
• to dry off
• to curve; to veer
• to shuffle (cards)
• to get angry; to snap; to blow one's top; to lose one's temper; to flip - colloquialism ➜ キレる

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• to be able to do completely - after the -masu stem of a verb - usually written using kana alone

adjective:

• tough; hard; severe; demanding; harsh - sometimes written 緊い
• determined; strong-minded; forceful; formidable; fierce
• strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe; intense
• (too) tight; constricting; close
• extreme; unusually strong

noun:

• upper reaches (of a river); upper stream Antonym: 下【しも】
• top; upper part; upper half (of the body)
• long ago
• beginning; first
• person of high rank (e.g. the emperor) - honorific language ➜ 御上
• government; imperial court
• imperial capital (i.e. Kyoto); capital region (i.e. Kansai); region (or direction of) the imperial palace ➜ 上方【かみがた】
• head (of a table)
• wife; mistress (of a restaurant) - honorific language

noun:

• system
• lineage; ancestry; family line
• group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); party; school (of thought)
• close (evolutionary) relationship
• a population sharing a common ancestor (in genetics); strain (e.g. bacterial)

noun:

• accent (on a syllable, word); stress; pitch accent
• intonation; inflection; cadence
• (language) accent (e.g. American, British)
• accent (e.g. in a design); highlight; emphasis
• accent (on a note) - Music term

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to tear; to rip up ［裂く］
• to cut up; to cleave; to cut open (esp. the abdomen)
• to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers) ［裂く］
• to spare (time, money, etc.); to use part of something ［割く］
• to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye - archaism ➜ 黥く

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to publish; to print; to carry (an article)
• to put up; to hang out; to hoist; to fly (a sail); to float (a flag, kite, etc.)
• to tuck up (e.g. sleeves); to roll up
• to tout (a principle, plan, etc.); to adopt (a slogan)
• to stoke a fire; to fan a flame

noun / ~する noun:

• accommodation; reception; housing
• seating
• custody (e.g. awaiting deportation); internment
• admission; hospitalization
• entering (e.g. in dictionary)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to look up (at)
• to look up to; to respect; to revere
• to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to turn to (someone) for
• to depend on; to rely on
• to gulp down; to quaff; to drink

noun / suffix noun:

• period; time
• age - Geology term
• term (e.g. in office); period
• session (e.g. of parliament)
• stage (e.g. disease)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to emboss
• to print out; to print
• to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to come out with; to set forth
• to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)
• to begin striking; to start beating

noun / ~する noun:

• lead; leading; taking the lead

noun:

• lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede
• lead (wire)
• lead (e.g. dog); leash
• reed (of a woodwind, etc.)
• lied; German song, usu. for solo voice & piano - From German "Lied" ➜ リート

noun / ~する noun:

• read; reading

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick; to get stuck; to get caught; to get jammed; to clog
• to be unavailable; to be busy; to be occupied; to be full
• to be piled up (e.g. of work)
• to halt (in one's speech); to stumble (over one's words); to stutter; to stammer
• to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 痞える【つかえる】

noun / conjunction:

• opposite; opposition
• versus; vs.; v.
• to (e.g. "winning a game five to three")
• equal footing; equal terms
• against ...; anti-; toward ...; to ...

noun / ~する noun:

• moving (location, with the times, etc.); change; transition
• metastasis; spread - Medicine term
• transition (e.g phase transition) - Physics term ➜ 相転移
• transfer (of learning)
• transference (in psychoanalysis)

noun / ~する noun:

• (telephone) call; (telephone) ring

noun:

• shout; call; chant
• call loan (e.g. 30-day call); call money - abbreviation ➜ コールローン・コールマネー
• coal

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• cold - Kansai dialect ➜ コールド

noun / ~の noun:

• leader
• reader; reading book
• reader (i.e. someone who reads)

noun:

• microreader - abbreviation ➜ マイクロリーダー
• dotted line (in printing); leaders; ellipsis mark ➜ 点線【てんせん】

noun / ~の noun:

• artificial product; man-made product; imitation; fake; sham
• fiction

noun:

• decoration (e.g. for a festival)
• theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, etc.)
• crop

~と adverb / noun:

• clap (sound of wooden clappers) - onomatopoeia ➜ ちょんちょん
• chop vigorously ➜ ちょん切る
• slight movement (e.g. poke, small bird alighting) ➜ ちょんちょん
• the end; originally end of a play, marked by clap of clappers ➜ ちょんになる

noun:

• dot (esp. typographical) ➜ ちょんちょん

suffix / ~の noun:

• -clad - after an article of clothing
• in the midst of - after a -masu stem - usually written using kana alone
• tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price) - after a number in the ichi, ni counting system
• times (i.e. multiplied by) - after a number in the hitotsu, futatsu counting system
• able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.) - after a number of people

noun:

• horsepower; HP ➜ 馬力
• home page ［ＨＰ］ - IT term ➜ ホームページ
• half-pipe (i.e. in snowboarding) ［ＨＰ］ ➜ ハーフパイプ
• HP (i.e. a 'hit point' in a role-playing game) ［ＨＰ］
• harp ［ｈｐ］ ➜ ハープ

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to smoke; to smoulder; to smolder; to sputter
• to be sooty; to be smoke-stained ［くすぶる・ふすぶる］
• to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder ［くすぶる］
• to seclude oneself ［くすぶる・ふすぶる］
• to live in obscurity; to stay in the same level (of social position, circumstances, etc.) ［くすぶる］

noun:

• opposite side; bottom; other side; side hidden from view; undersurface; reverse side Antonym: 表【おもて】
• rear; back; behind
• lining; inside
• in the shadows; behind the scenes; offstage; behind one's back
• more (to something than meets the eye); hidden side (e.g. of one's personality); unknown circumstances; different side
• proof ➜ 裏付け
• opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.); contrary ➜ 裏をかく
• inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
• bottom (of an inning); last half (of an inning) - Baseball term Antonym: 表【おもて】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to float
• to become merry; to be cheerful ➜ 浮かぬ顔
• to become loose; to become unsteady
• to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you); to feel out of place - colloquialism
• to be frivolous; to be uncertain
• to have (time, money, etc.) left over; to be saved (e.g. money)
• to have no basis; to be unreliable